[GENERAL] Question about memory usage of pg_dump

2017-10-09 Thread Condor
Hello, I have a question .. okay I know it's a dump but need to ask it because probably I will need to tell of five of my collective bad things... :) My version is PostgreSQL 9.6.5 on x86_64-slackware-linux-gnu, compiled by x86_64-slackware-linux-gcc (GCC) 7.2.0, 64-bit on server IP 10.1.1.3

Re: [GENERAL] question about memory usage

2014-07-23 Thread klo uo
Tomas, thanks for the heads up! I certainly didn't know what this setting means, except the obvious name. Your links helped. I just can't find where was this setting suggested, but IIRC it was in a guide for migrating OSM to PostGIS, as other tables were just created by GDAL OGR. I had this line

Re: [GENERAL] question about memory usage

2014-07-23 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 23 Červenec 2014, 15:56, klo uo wrote: > Bill, thanks for your reply. > > "shared_buffers" is set to "128MB". > > Now that you mention config file, the only thing I did change there, and > was suggested to me while I made some on my databases was > "max_locks_per_transaction = 5" (which has

Re: [GENERAL] question about memory usage

2014-07-23 Thread klo uo
Bill, thanks for your reply. "shared_buffers" is set to "128MB". Now that you mention config file, the only thing I did change there, and was suggested to me while I made some on my databases was "max_locks_per_transaction = 5" (which has default value 1). After resetting "max_locks_per_

Re: [GENERAL] question about memory usage

2014-07-22 Thread Bill Moran
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 00:16:47 +0200 klo uo wrote: > > Looking in process explorer, I see unusual size for postgres server > process, i.e. working set reported around 1GB: > http://i.imgur.com/HmkvFLM.png (same in attachment) > > I also use SqlExpress server with several databases (including spat

[GENERAL] question about memory usage

2014-07-22 Thread klo uo
Hi, I run Windows and I started using 64 bit PostgreSQL 9.3 a month ago. I have several PostGIS databases on localhost, with these statistics: === Xact XactRolled Blocks Blocks TuplesTuples S

Re: [GENERAL] Question about memory usage

2014-01-10 Thread Preston Hagar
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Preston Hagar writes: >> >>> tl;dr: Moved from 8.3 to 9.3 and are now getting out of memory errors >> >>> despite the server now having 32 GB instead of 4 GB of RAM and the >> workload >> >>> and number of clients remaining the same. >> >> >

Re: [GENERAL] Question about memory usage

2014-01-10 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 10 Leden 2014, 19:19, Tom Lane wrote: > Preston Hagar writes: tl;dr: Moved from 8.3 to 9.3 and are now getting out of memory errors despite the server now having 32 GB instead of 4 GB of RAM and the workload and number of clients remaining the same. > >> Here are a couple of

Re: [GENERAL] Question about memory usage

2014-01-10 Thread Tom Lane
Preston Hagar writes: >>> tl;dr: Moved from 8.3 to 9.3 and are now getting out of memory errors >>> despite the server now having 32 GB instead of 4 GB of RAM and the workload >>> and number of clients remaining the same. > Here are a couple of examples from the incident we had this morning: > 20

Re: [GENERAL] Question about memory usage

2014-01-10 Thread Preston Hagar
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: > > On Jan 10, 2014, at 8:35 AM, Preston Hagar wrote: > > > tl;dr: Moved from 8.3 to 9.3 and are now getting out of memory errors > despite the server now having 32 GB instead of 4 GB of RAM and the workload > and number of clients remaining

Re: [GENERAL] Question about memory usage

2014-01-10 Thread Steve Atkins
On Jan 10, 2014, at 8:35 AM, Preston Hagar wrote: > tl;dr: Moved from 8.3 to 9.3 and are now getting out of memory errors despite > the server now having 32 GB instead of 4 GB of RAM and the workload and > number of clients remaining the same. > > > Details: > > We have been using Postgresq

[GENERAL] Question about memory usage

2014-01-10 Thread Preston Hagar
tl;dr: Moved from 8.3 to 9.3 and are now getting out of memory errors despite the server now having 32 GB instead of 4 GB of RAM and the workload and number of clients remaining the same. Details: We have been using Postgresql for some time internally with much success. Recently, we completed a